Virtual care with patient input: A win for all with home BP monitoring and ManageMyHealth

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Virtual care with patient input: A win for all with home BP monitoring and ManageMyHealth

Richard Medlicott

Richard Medlicott

Older man measures blood pressure
Home blood pressure recording was used to guide prescribing advice in dangerous hypertension (photo posed by model) [Image: DjelicS on iStock]

Richard Medlicott explains how a hypertensive patient was able to regularly update him with blood pressure levels recorded on a personal monitor, saving time and quickly managing the BP down

Our usual model of care for managing a patient’s condition via the use of episodic appointments is not always very efficient or effective, neither for, Table 1, Table 1. The patient’s initial BP readings at 25 June [Image: Supplied]